The opening scenes, under the credits, were shot at the Iverson Ranch near Chatsworth, north of Los Angeles, but the fictitious ‘Hadleyville, New Mexico’ was to have been played by the Main Street of Columbia State Historic Park, a preserved goldrush town in northern California.

By the time the crew arrived, however, spring had arrived and the bleak, bare main street of Columbia had burst into green leafiness.

In the end, they used the Western Street at, by coincidence, Columbia Pictures in Burbank.

Some of the real mining town remains in the picture, though. You can't miss the white picket fence of Sam Fuller (Harry Morgan), the cowardly friend who sends his wife to claim he's not at home. This is the Wilson House on Main Street, a few doors away from Visitor Center, and the last privately-owned home in the town.

High Noon filming location: the home of cowardly Sam Fuller: Wilson House, Main Street, Columbia State Park, California

A few miles southeast of Columbia you'll find the church where Kane pleads for special deputies to face Frank Miller. It's St Joseph's Catholic Church, Gardner Avenue at Tuolumne Road in Tuolumne City, not a city at all but a tiny town just off Route 108.